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English
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Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt,...
Author
Publisher
SFWP
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning four seasons, ten countries, three teaching jobs, and countless buses, Patagonian Road : A Year Alone Through Latin America chronicles Kate McCahill's solo journey from Guatemala to Argentina. In her struggles with language, romance, culture, service, and homesickness, she personifies a growing culture of women for whom travel is not a path to love but a route to meaningful work, rare inspiration, and profound self-discovery. Following the...
3) Eva Luna
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Language
English
Description
The history of a woman born poor, orphaned early, and who eventually rose to a position of unique influence.
Author
Language
English
Description
A mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert and Detective Sergeant Romulus Poe sets out to determine who could have committed the murder and the brutal desecration that followed. His team of investigators include the tall and lusty Steve Jensen, novice Patricia Deluca, and medical examiner Rukmani Kalil. The relations between the four are complex and add depth to this tale of deadly dealings: Poe carries a torch for Jensen's mentally...
Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1973
Language
English
Description
This book was first published in 1955, and contains a selection of writings from Confederate women, found in news articles, letters, diaries, and other sources, which detail the Civil War as they witnessed it. Authors include Eliza Frances Andrews, Belle Boyd, Susan Bradford, Issa Desha Breckenridge, Mary Boykin Chestnut, Varina Howell Davis, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, and many others. Includes biographical notes on the authors, and some photographs.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
American history is rife with stories of our founding fathers, but what of the women who lived and worked alongside these men? This fun and exciting book whisks young readers back to early America, introducing them to a refreshing assortment of brave and unique American women of colonial times.
8) Apalachee
Author
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Spanish missionaries have settled in the Apalachee homeland on the Florida panhandle, introducing new diseases to the native population and attempting to convert them to Christianity. Despite these changes, the Apalachees maintain an uneasy coexistence with the friars.
Everything changes when English soldiers and their Indian allies from the colony of Carolina invade Spanish Florida. After being driven from her Apalachee homeland by the English,...
10) Eva Luna
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
Español
Description
The history of a woman born poor, orphaned early, and who eventually rose to a position of unique influence.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
In the Americas, the oral tradition has created one of the oldest surviving bodies of literature on earth. Native American storytelling, in particular, stands out for its distinctive honoring of womanly power and the female forces of the universe.Gathered here are traditional versions of stories and songs that best portray this strength and vitality. Illuminating the scope of human behavior-from treacherous mates and medicine men to magical sages...
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Draws on recent archaeological discoveries to trace the mythical journey of Gudrid, a Viking women who was thought to have sailed off the edge of the known world more than five hundred years before Christopher Columbus made his historic journey, and explores what Viking society was like in her time and the reasons for its collapse.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Through the centuries and across tribal boundaries, countless Native Americans have made history, despite prejudices against them. The nine men and women in this collection are just a few of them. Jim Thorpe, a Sac and Fox, won the 1912 Olympic decathlon and is considered by many experts to be the greatest athlete the United States has ever known. Will Rogers, often billed as "The Cherokee Kid", was the most popular entertainer in America in the early...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the American West through letters, diaries, memoirs, journals, essays, and photographs, that chronicle the experiences of the explorers, soldiers, Indian warriors, settlers, railroad builders, and showmen who set out into the wilderness in search of a dream.
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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
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Description
When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. As southern women struggled "to do a man's business," they found themselves compelled to reconsider their most fundamental assumptions about their identities and about the larger meaning of womanhood. Drew Faust offers a...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Old fires reignite when Helen Ketterling lands a job as a dealer in an Indian casino in North Dakota which is managed by Reese Blue Sky, an old flame. But Reese is in for a shock--Helen is an undercover agent for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and in addition has a 13-year-old son by him.
Author
Series
Lucy Stone mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Description
Amateur sleuth Lucy Stone investigates when Tinker's Cove's annual Thanksgiving festivities are interrupted by the murder of Metinnicut Indian activist Curt Nolan and uncovers a host of suspects while cooking up a holiday dinner for twelve.